Examples of leachate in a Sentence
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Residents in and around Seneca Falls have long complained about a bevy of problems related to the site, including truck traffic, choking dust and the potential for landfill runoff — known as leachate — to contaminate drinking water.
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Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
According to the company’s 2021 report, tens of millions of gallons of that leachate — tainted by toxic substances like arsenic and a range of dangerous chemicals — was collected and shipped to treatment facilities around the state, including to Buffalo, Ms. Hochul’s hometown.
—Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
In fact, the highest amounts of BPA (up to 17 milligrams per liter) are reported in landfill leachate (the highly toxic liquid byproduct of landfill waste) and liquid waste from paper mills.
—Katherine Gallagher, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
But the dump was constructed in such a way that leachate could be closely monitored and prevented from contaminating the surrounding water.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
For instance, with a 20 percent hydrochloric acid solution, the researchers needed to increase the butt leachate to 10 percent of the liquid to keep damage to the steel low: at less than 12 percent of the corrosion seen with the unamended acid solution [Science News].
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2010
In the two labs, the team exposed organisms to the particles and the leachate that comes off of them.
—Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
Waste Connections was the focus of criticism after reports of problems at the nearly 800-acre landfill due to malfunctioning systems that were unable to collect liquids percolating through the landfill called leachate and were allowing natural gas and other noxious fumes to escape into the air.
—Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 16 Nov. 2020
The landfills also have leachate collection systems to capture anything that comes out of the landfill and remove it to be treated, Kohler explained.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2023
Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
According to the company’s 2021 report, tens of millions of gallons of that leachate — tainted by toxic substances like arsenic and a range of dangerous chemicals — was collected and shipped to treatment facilities around the state, including to Buffalo, Ms. Hochul’s hometown.
—Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
In fact, the highest amounts of BPA (up to 17 milligrams per liter) are reported in landfill leachate (the highly toxic liquid byproduct of landfill waste) and liquid waste from paper mills.
—Katherine Gallagher, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
But the dump was constructed in such a way that leachate could be closely monitored and prevented from contaminating the surrounding water.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
For instance, with a 20 percent hydrochloric acid solution, the researchers needed to increase the butt leachate to 10 percent of the liquid to keep damage to the steel low: at less than 12 percent of the corrosion seen with the unamended acid solution [Science News].
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2010
In the two labs, the team exposed organisms to the particles and the leachate that comes off of them.
—Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
Waste Connections was the focus of criticism after reports of problems at the nearly 800-acre landfill due to malfunctioning systems that were unable to collect liquids percolating through the landfill called leachate and were allowing natural gas and other noxious fumes to escape into the air.
—Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 16 Nov. 2020
The landfills also have leachate collection systems to capture anything that comes out of the landfill and remove it to be treated, Kohler explained.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2023
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